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International Education Week! Nov 14-18

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The UT Libraries Diversity Committee joins the International House and the Center for International Education in International Education Week 2011! Check out our display of culturally enlightening titles in the Culture Corner section first floor Galleria, Hodges Library.

International Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States.
http://iew.state.gov/index.cfm

Call for Support: Remembrance Day National Roll Call

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Join the UT Libraries Diversity committee in supporting
Remembrance Day National Roll Call at Circle Park Nov. 11, 2011,
as campus and community volunteers at more than 100 college and universities across the nation will read the names of the 6,200-plus casualties of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), now called Operation New Dawn.

The event begins at 1:45 with a moment of silence at 2:00 pm.
More information is available at the Veterans of UTK web site:
http://web.utk.edu/~utkvets/nrc.html

Changing the world with one cell: The story of HeLa

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The Diversity Committee presents the Fall 2011 Culture Corner featuring The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks’ cell culture spawned changes in medicine, science, ethics, society and the world. This Semester’s Culture Corner features selections from UT Libraries collection that highlight the areas effected by this one human and her immortal cell.

Diversity Meeting Notes Thursday July 28 2011

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Thanks to all for a productive Diversity Meeting On Thursday July 28
The meeting took place in the location Hodges Library 2nd floor Mary E. Greer room
Announcements were as following:
News of the Dean of Libraries Steve Smith inviting the committee to be guests on September 23 for a gala dinner and evening at the Knoxville Convention Center
The committee is charged with inviting 6 additional guests
Members who would like to attend please notify Patty @ boling00@utk.edu asap the deadline is August 12 but the sooner the better!
The event is September 23 with reception starting@ 5:30 and dinner at 6:30 the event will be held at the Convention Center
September 8 Showcase program discussion:
Budget request;
Radio Station $200-$300
Cookies/punch/water $150
Door Prizes $120
Balloons$
Buttons$$
Potential participates are;
WUTK Radio Station (there is a $200-$300 cost)
Black Cultural Center
African –American 50th Achievement
Chris Durman representing the Music Library
Native American Student Association (NASA)
Spoken Word participants
Library Common Ground Book club
Connie Steigenga ( make balloon animals)
Michelle Brannen ( civility videos contest entries)
Student Health Center (providing HPV awareness education)
Martha Rudolph is creating digital signs to announce the September 8 program & she is putting together a hall of fame slide show with photos from the Black Cultural Center
Much more…..
New membership:
Allison B. and Thura will work on getting the announcement out for a call for new members on Monday August 1
The fall Culture Corner:
Allie R. is creating posters for the LOTM displays & Cultural Corner
Thura is working on updating the Cultural Corner (volunteers are welcome)
50th Celebration:
Annazette met with me after the meeting and the 50th committee has offered to provide 50th buttons for the September 8 program (email me and let me know if this will take of our button needs)

Thura Mack
Professor
Coordinator, Community Learning Services
tmack@utk.edu
865-974-6381

UT Libraries Celebrates 50 years of African American Achievement: A Showcase.

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Join us Thursday, Sept. 8, 2:00-4:00 p.m. throughout the John C. Hodges Library for exhibits and entertainment in the library, featuring interactive personal expression, digital storytelling, music, poetry readings, and movies.
Programming:
WUTK The Rock live on site, Black Cultural Center, 50th African American Achievement Committee, UT Libraries Music Library, Native American Student Association, Common Ground Book Club, My Everyday Civility: featuring the 2011 Free Range Video Contest Winners, Movie in Hodges Library Auditorium and 212: Miss Evers’ Boys, and the Student Health Center

Miss Evers’ Boys Film Screening

Date, Time & Location:
Thursday, September 8
1st Screening: 2 PM in Hodges Library 212
2nd Screening: 6PM in Hodges Library Auditorium

Participation:
Free and open to the public

Description:
Laurence Fishburne and Alfre Woodard star in this drama, based on the “true story of the US Government’s 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed” (imdb.com). This film screening is co-sponsored by the UT Libraries Diversity Committee, as part of UT Libraries Celebrates 50 years of African American Achievement: A Showcase. The film will be screened once at 2 PM and again at 6 PM.

Sponsored by UT libraries Diversity Committee, UT Life of the Mind Program, and the 50 years of African American Achievement Committee

Winning Respect Through Civility, April 20 from 2:30-4:00

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Please come to a panel discussion, Winning Respect Through Civility, on Wednesday, April 20 from 2:30-4:00 pm in 605 John C. Hodges Library. Panelists are

· Joan Cronan, Director of Women’s Athletics
· Marva Rudolph, Director, Office of Equity & Diversity
· Annazette Houston, Director, Disability Services and Co-Chair of the 50th Anniversary of African American Achievement Planning.

Panelists will respond to the following questions along with others we raise:

1. How do you define “respect” and “civility?”
2. Please tell us about your position at UTK and ways you garner respect.
3. How can body language convey civility?
4. What strategies do you use for being respectful to angry people?
5. Tell us about an experience where you promoted civility by listening.
6. How do differences affect perceptions of civility?
7. Please give us some advice for saying “no” with civility.
8. What can individuals do to create a civil, respectful environment?

The Libraries will offer HR 128 credit for this program. Refreshments will be served. Please put this event on your calendar now!

Best wishes,
Linda

Diversity Committee Meeting Notes March 17th 2011

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Diversity 3/17

Pow wow fill in
April 8th and 9th Fire dance set for Friday evening. Once in a lifetime opportunity to see an Aztec Fire dance. Big event for the Cherokee – first gathering on this land in over 100 years.

International festival
Table with Common Ground Book Club April 12th support the Henrietta Lacks Life of the Mind book. (table volunteers needed)

UT Libraries celebration of 50 years of African American achievement.
Date scheduled for Sep 8. start time TBA. Programming ideas:
Reception Mary Greer room light snacks (cookies)…
Joseph Delaney African American residence welcome week date.
Lacks is coming for welcome week. Libguide for african american email to committee
Slam poetry session venue TBA
(Annazette will explore student readers.)
Canvas for diversity (paper on the floor student participants to write about diversity )

WE need:
Timetable for events
Slide show and film
Canvas for diversity

Rothrock Lecture UC dining room April 28th eve

Welcome the new Dean Smith Reception
planning for July (he’s coming July 1st)


Books to explore:
Civil Words and Phrases http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Words-Phrases-Still-ebook/dp/B004LGS7KY

Choosing Civility
The 25 rules of considerate conduct P.M. Forni
http://www.brianrwright.com/Coffee_Coaster/03_Book_Reviews/2009/090427_Choosing_Civility.htm

1. Pay attention
2. Acknowledge others
3. Think the best
4. Listen
5. Be inclusive
6. Speak kindly
7. Don’t speak ill
8. Accept and give praise
9. Respect even a subtle “no”
10. Respect others’ opinions
11. Mind your body
12. Be agreeable
13. Keep it down (and rediscover silence)
14. Respect other people’s time
15. Respect other people’s space
16. Apologize earnestly
17. Assert yourself
18. Avoid personal questions
19. Care for your guests
20. Be a considerate guest
21. Think twice before asking for favors
22. Refrain from idle complaints
23. Accept and give constructive criticism
24. Respect the environment and be gentle
25. Don’t shift responsibility and blame

Anadasgisi: The Gathering of International Natives @UTK April 8th and 9th

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Friday, April 8, 2011 at 6:45 in the Humanities Amphitheater with an open discussion with Principal Chief, Michell Hicks, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and followed by a presentation of the Aztec Fire Dance. The event will continue on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 10:15 with the Grand Entry of Performers in Circle Park at the University of Tennessee.

print the NASA Pow-WOW poster

http://www.utk.edu/events/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=47883